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title: "Banco de Chile SWIFT/BIC code BCHICLRMXXX · Chile | Elucidate"
description: "SWIFT/BIC code BCHICLRMXXX for Banco de Chile, Chile. 4 branch BICs, LEI 8B4EZFY8IHJC44TT2K84, addresses and Swift connectivity."
url: https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm
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Chile · Financial institution
# Banco de Chile
Banco de Chile is a banking corporation organised under Chilean law, with its head office at Paseo Ahumada 251 in Santiago. The LQIF group directly and indirectly owns 51.15% of its shares. LQIF is owned 50% by Quiñenco S.A. and 50% by Citigroup Inc., and Quiñenco controls it under a shareholders' agreement. The bank offers retail, SME, wholesale and treasury banking in Chile under the Banco de Chile and Banco Edwards brands. Its Banchile subsidiaries provide brokerage, fund management, investment banking, insurance brokerage and card acquiring. The bank dates from an 1893 merger of three banks, merged with Banco de A. Edwards in 2002 and merged with Citibank Chile in 2008.
BIC **BCHICLRMXXX** LEI **[8B4EZFY8IHJC44TT2K84](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/8B4EZFY8IHJC44TT2K84)** Licence no. **Not on a tracked register** Connected to Swift Swift GPI live member [**4** branch codes](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#branches) [**1** respondent bank](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#respondents) [Claim this profile](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#claim)
## Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
## Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- **BIC:** BCHICLRMXXX head office
- **Connection to Swift:** Connected to Swift
- **Swift GPI:** Live member
- **Payment schemes and systems:** No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- **Branch codes:** [4 branch codes](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#branches)
- **BIC first registered:** 1981-06-01
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-06
## Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · [Sources](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#overview-sources)
Total assets
CLP 55.4tn
Group · 31 Mar 2026 · [interim report ↗](https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/BCH/6-k-bank-of-chile-current-report-foreign-issuer-af7c46943360.html)
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Publicly listed
Tickers CHILE · CHILE · BCH
Institution type
Commercial bank
- **Ownership:** The LQIF group, owned equally by Quiñenco S.A. and Citigroup Inc. and controlled by Quiñenco, directly and indirectly holds 51.15% of the shares, and the remainder is listed in Santiago and, as ADS, on the New York Stock Exchange.
- **Direct parent:** LQ Inversiones Financieras S.A., Chile 51.15%
- **Ultimate owner:** Quiñenco S.A., Chile
- **Major shareholder:** LQ Inversiones Financieras S.A. group (LQIF, direct and indirect) 51.15% · 30 Jun 2026
- **Stock listings:** Santiago Stock Exchange CHILE Bolsa Electrónica de Chile CHILE New York Stock Exchange (ADS) BCH
- **Head office:** Paseo Ahumada 251, 8320206 Santiago, Chile
### Business lines
- Retail banking
- SME banking
- Corporate banking
- Mortgage lending
- Consumer finance
- Cards
- Markets & trading
- Transaction banking & payments
- Trade finance
- Leasing & factoring
- Private banking & wealth
- Brokerage
- Asset management
- Investment banking
- Insurance
The bank reports four segments: retail, wholesale, treasury and subsidiaries, with brokerage, fund management, investment banking, insurance brokerage and card acquiring carried out by Banchile subsidiaries.
### Online
- **Websites & references:** [bancochile.cl ↗](https://www.bancochile.cl/) [sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/home ↗](https://sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/home) Corporate site (Nuestro Banco): governance, press releases [sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/personas ↗](https://sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/personas) Retail banking site [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_de_Chile)
- **Official social accounts:** [LinkedIn ↗](https://cl.linkedin.com/company/banco-de-chile)
Sources · 12 pages consulted
1. [sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/prensa/noticias/detalle/banco-de-chile-renueva-su-directorio-aprueba-dis](https://sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/prensa/noticias/detalle/banco-de-chile-renueva-su-directorio-aprueba-distribucion-dividendo-y-pone-en-marcha-inversiones-por-usdollar-100-millones)
2. [stocktitan.net/sec-filings/BCH/6-k-bank-of-chile-current-report-foreign-issuer-b0b7e2580c31.html](https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/BCH/6-k-bank-of-chile-current-report-foreign-issuer-b0b7e2580c31.html)
3. [stocktitan.net/sec-filings/BCH/6-k-bank-of-chile-current-report-foreign-issuer-af7c46943360.html](https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/BCH/6-k-bank-of-chile-current-report-foreign-issuer-af7c46943360.html)
4. [sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1161125/000121390026049679/ea028814401ex99-1.htm](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1161125/000121390026049679/ea028814401ex99-1.htm)
5. [sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1161125/000121390026024652/ea028019201ex99-1.pdf](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1161125/000121390026024652/ea028019201ex99-1.pdf)
6. [sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1161125/000121390026050243/ea028324401ex4-25.htm](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1161125/000121390026050243/ea028324401ex4-25.htm)
7. [cmfchile.cl/portal/prensa/615/w3-article-73346.html](https://www.cmfchile.cl/portal/prensa/615/w3-article-73346.html)
8. [biobiochile.cl/noticias/economia/negocios-y-empresas/2026/08/31/cmf-multa-a-dos-bancos-por-dar-creditos-](https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/economia/negocios-y-empresas/2026/08/31/cmf-multa-a-dos-bancos-por-dar-creditos-a-personas-sin-revisar-si-eran-deudores-de-pension.shtml)
9. [chocale.cl/2025/11/accionistas-del-banco-de-chile-aprobaron-reducir-integrantes-de-su-directorio/](https://chocale.cl/2025/11/accionistas-del-banco-de-chile-aprobaron-reducir-integrantes-de-su-directorio/)
10. [ww3.bancochile.cl/wps/wcm/connect/nuestro-banco/portal/gobierno-corporativo/alta-administracion/rolando-ari](https://ww3.bancochile.cl/wps/wcm/connect/nuestro-banco/portal/gobierno-corporativo/alta-administracion/rolando-arias)
11. [sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/home](https://sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/home)
12. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco\_de\_Chile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_de_Chile)
## Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · [Sources](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#overview-sources)
- **Chief executive:** Eduardo Ebensperger Orrego Gerente General (Chief Executive Officer) Confirmed 31 Jul 2026 · [sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl ↗](https://sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/prensa/noticias/detalle/banco-de-chile-renueva-su-directorio-aprueba-distribucion-dividendo-y-pone-en-marcha-inversiones-por-usdollar-100-millones)
- **Chair:** Pablo Granifo Lavín Presidente del Directorio (Chairman of the Board) Confirmed 26 Mar 2026 · [sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl ↗](https://sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/prensa/noticias/detalle/banco-de-chile-renueva-su-directorio-aprueba-distribucion-dividendo-y-pone-en-marcha-inversiones-por-usdollar-100-millones)
- **Chief financial officer:** Rolando Arias Sánchez Gerente División Gestión y Control Financiero (Chief Financial Officer) Confirmed 10 Nov 2025 · [ww3.bancochile.cl ↗](https://ww3.bancochile.cl/wps/wcm/connect/nuestro-banco/portal/gobierno-corporativo/alta-administracion/rolando-arias)
## Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · [Sources](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#overview-sources)
- **Chile:** Financial Market Commission (Comisión para el Mercado Financiero, CMF) Prudential supervisor Conduct Securities AML supervisor Resolution
- **Chile:** Central Bank of Chile (Banco Central de Chile) Central bank Foreign exchange
## Recent events 2 enforcement or investigation items
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · [Sources](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm#overview-sources)
1. Aug 2026
Enforcement
The CMF fined the bank UF 238.14 for granting loans without complying with Law 14.908 on the national register of child-support debtors.
[biobiochile.cl ↗](https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/economia/negocios-y-empresas/2026/08/31/cmf-multa-a-dos-bancos-por-dar-creditos-a-personas-sin-revisar-si-eran-deudores-de-pension.shtml)
2. Mar 2026
Leadership
The annual shareholders' meeting elected a nine-member board. Vivianne Caumont and Paul Furst Gwinner joined, and three directors left.
[sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl ↗](https://sitiospublicos.bancochile.cl/nuestro-banco/es/prensa/noticias/detalle/banco-de-chile-renueva-su-directorio-aprueba-distribucion-dividendo-y-pone-en-marcha-inversiones-por-usdollar-100-millones)
3. Nov 2025
Other
An extraordinary shareholders' meeting approved bylaw amendments reducing the board from 11 to nine directors, keeping two alternate directors.
[chocale.cl ↗](https://chocale.cl/2025/11/accionistas-del-banco-de-chile-aprobaron-reducir-integrantes-de-su-directorio/)
4. Sep 2023
Enforcement
The CMF fined the bank UF 200 for not fully and promptly sending client banking records requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
[cmfchile.cl ↗](https://www.cmfchile.cl/portal/prensa/615/w3-article-73346.html)
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
## Identifiers
Head-office record
- **BIC:** BCHICLRMXXX
- **How the BIC breaks down:** 1. BCHI Bank 2. CL Country · Chile 3. RM Location 4. XXX Branch · head office
- **Branch description:** Not recorded in the directory
- **LEI:** 8B4EZFY8IHJC44TT2K84
- **LEI record:** [View on GLEIF ↗](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/8B4EZFY8IHJC44TT2K84)
- **How the LEI was matched:** BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
## Profile
- **Type:** Financial institution
- **Regulation:** Not on a tracked register
- **Register licences:** None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- **Country · region:** Chile · Latin America & Caribbean
- **Trading venues (MIC):** No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- **OFAC sanctions:** No listing cites this BIC
- **EU sanctions:** No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- **Country sanctions:** No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
## Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- **Direct parent:** Quinenco S A · Chile[2549000T5LJBJNWU8390 ↗](https://search.gleif.org/#/record/2549000T5LJBJNWU8390)
Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
## Addresses
- **Registered address:** 251 PASEO AHUMADA SANTIAGO 8320206 CHILE
- **Operational address:** BANCO DE CHILE 251 PASEO AHUMADA SANTIAGO 8320206 SANTIAGO CHILE
## ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- **Identified by:** BIC, with its LEI
- **Roles in CBPR+:** Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
### CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
```xml
BCHICLRMXXX
8B4EZFY8IHJC44TT2K84
```
### Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
```xml
BCHICLRMXXX
8B4EZFY8IHJC44TT2K84
BANCO DE CHILE
SANTIAGO
CL
251 PASEO AHUMADA SANTIAGO 8320206
```
The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
## Network
### Branches and correspondent banking
All 4 branch BICs connect to the head office. They are all in Santiago, and no function or registration year splits them further. Deutsche Bank AG publishes 1 account held with this bank.
### Respondent banks
From the correspondent lists other banks publish
Deutsche Bank AG publishes 1 account held with this bank.
| Currency | Respondent bank | Held at | Account | Purpose | Published in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CLP | [Deutsche Bank AG](https://elucidate.co/directory/deutsche-bank-ag-deutdeff) Germany | BCHICLRM | 8005714208/59157090-0 Account/RUT (Tax ID) | FX and FX options cash | [corporates.db.com ↗](https://corporates.db.com/files/documents/legal-resources/ssi/2026/SSI-fuer-FX-2026-07-13.pdf) dated 13 Jul 2026 |
Each row is an account the respondent bank lists as held with this bank, as published. Only banks that publish their correspondent accounts, and that Elucidate has researched, can appear, so the list is not complete. Confirm settlement instructions with either bank before relying on them.
### Branch codes
| BIC | Branch | City | Address | LEI | Updated |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [BCHICLRMCUS](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm-cus) | CUSTODY | Santiago | AHUMADA 251 SANTIAGO SANTIAGO CHILE | — | 2026-07-06 |
| [BCHICLRMEXP](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm-exp) | EXPORT | Santiago | SANTIAGO SANTIAGO CHILE | — | 2026-07-06 |
| [BCHICLRMIMP](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm-imp) | IMPORT HEAD OFFICE | Santiago | SANTIAGO SANTIAGO CHILE | — | 2026-07-06 |
| [BCHICLRMIOB](https://elucidate.co/directory/banco-de-chile-bchiclrm-iob) | IMPORT OTHER SANTIAGO BRANCHES | Santiago | SANTIAGO SANTIAGO CHILE | — | 2026-07-06 |
[See every BIC in Chile →](https://elucidate.co/directory/country/cl#bics)
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- [China Construction Bank, Agencia En Chile BIC PCBCCLRM Credit institution Prudential licence Chile · On the FSB G-SIB list · LEI 2549001TWO8T8B6UMU91](https://elucidate.co/directory/china-construction-bank-agencia-en-chile-pcbcclrm)
- [Samsung Electronics Chile Limitada (Ltda) BIC SECTCLR1 Non-financial corporate Not on a tracked register Chile · Not on a tracked register · LEI 25490061U8AL49462B58](https://elucidate.co/directory/samsung-electronics-chile-limitada-ltda-sectclr1)
[See every BIC in Chile →](https://elucidate.co/directory/country/cl#bics)
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Sources & method
Every value comes from a public source, such as Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, GLEIF or the OFAC and EU sanctions lists. Most sources are matched on a BIC or an LEI, not on a name.
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